By Shane Thomas (smthomas)
This episode goes over a basic overview of Drupal Commerce and how it can be used to create a Drupal 7 based ecommerce website.
In this episode you will learn:
What is Drupal Commerce
How Drupal Commerce can be used to build flexible and dynamic ecommerce websites
Common Drupal Commerce terminology
The new Drupal Commerce module brings shop building to a new level by fully leveraging the functionalities of Drupal 7. On the other hand the great flexibility of Drupal Commerce provides so many options sometimes it's unclear how to implement the right solution.
This was a quick run through example of explaining Drupal Commerce to an audience in about 15 minutes. Not scripted, but there are slides and it does give a pretty good overview.
Want specific people to be notified when a particular product gets checked out? This screencast shows how, by adding a multivalued notification email field to the product. It's another great demonstration of why Drupal Commerce is built on top of rules.
This also gives a quick list of the 3 top reasons people have trouble with rules right at the top, so it's worth looking at for that reason.
Using colorbox to present the images on Drupal Commerce products is really no different from the original techniques, except that the actual settings are done on the *product type's* display settings. Here's a quick runthrough of the process.
Colorbox is a light-weight, customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery 1.4.3+. This module allows for integration of Colorbox into Drupal.
Images, iframed or inline content etc. can be displayed in a overlay above the current page.
Colorbox Screencasts
In this screencast I demonstrate how to do shipping charges per item in the cart. It shows using a loop in Rules and how to do something new and different with shipping.
We want to add $5.00 to the shipping charge for every item they have. So if the quantity is 5 for some line item, we'll add $25 to the shipping charge.
The technique is this:
The Commerce UPS module enables real-time shipping quotes from the UPS shipping company. This screencast shows how to set up Commerce Shipping with Commerce UPS.
For Commerce UPS Shipping you'll need:
* Product types with weight and dimensions fields
* Products that have weight and dimensions
This is a quick introduction to Commerce Shipping, using the new Commerce Flat Rate module. We create a flat rate shipping service and then a "free shipping" service and use rules to determine which one gets selected based on ship-to address.
The first concept is that we have a *shipping method* of *flat rate*. You can think of this as a shipping vendor or shipping provider. In this case, we're using *flat rate*, which doesn't have an actual provider behind it.
Custom Line Items were a late addition to Drupal Commerce, but they offer amazing flexibility to the sitebuilder. In this first screencast about custom line items, I show how to add fields to the line item and explain why you might want to do so.
First we look at the Product fields. We are not talking about fields on products. We want to talk about fields on line items. A good example of this is selling a conference ticket, but we need to ask the customer the attendee's name for the conference.
This screencast demonstrates the incredible power of rules to make functional changes to your Drupal site without requiring PHP code. And along the way, you'll understand why Drupal Commerce is built on top of Rules (so you can do things like this) and even understand how Commerce Stock works.
